Orbis Connects presents Code & Create

In this workshop, our event host Joe Davies will be joined by Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen - Tech Writer, Tech Speaker, FOSS Maintainer, Microsoft MVP.

We will discuss how to build a basic WebAssembley application live using Blazor. We will also be discussing the trade-offs that Blazor brings for both its runtime modes.

Will it ever replace JavaScript when it comes to building interactive web UIs?

Join us live, get involved in the conversation and find out.

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Welcome to Code & Create!

For this exciting episode, we’ll be taking part in The Global Tech Fest.

We’re going to look at some key React features. You’ll learn to code as our guest Borja Leiva takes us through a visual journey of the basics of React.

This workshop is suitable for all. We'll start with the basics and then gradually increase the difficulty of the challenge in front of us.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn more about real-life scenarios with using React.

• The fundamentals of building web applications.

• How to take advantage of 3rd party API's.

Orbis Connect presents Code & Create - Facilitating Remote Workshops. Host Joe Davies will be speaking to Christian Jensen, Product Design Team Lead at SimpleSite to discuss the value of remote workshops and offer some practical examples on how to make the most out of them. Within the current global circumstances, learn from these concrete examples. See how the Design team at SimpleSite are adapting to working from home with remote workshops and the do's and don'ts they have picked up along the way. Christian is a Product Designer with a background in Service Design, currently Product Design Team Lead at SimpleSite. He covers the spectrum from the initial strategy, over UX research, through iterative prototyping and testing, to production-ready UI.

This Code & Create event is for all aspiring designers or anyone new to remote workshopping!

Welcome to Code & Create by Orbis Connect  

This is a new trending topic explained in a non-opinionated way, an architectural solution that brings many organisational benefits to help mid to large companies to easily scale.

Micro Front-ends explained.

Joined by Marco Sanfilippo Frittola - Engineer, Software Solution Architect, Speaker and JS advocate. 

Welcome to Code & Create.

For this episode, look at the fundamentals to UX Design and creating a killer portfolio to begin your career in UX Design.

If you’re an aspiring UX Designer, there’s probably so much you’re currently thinking about. Things like how to learn UX, what a good portfolio looks like, what a portfolio is and why it’s important can be top of mind.

Let’s start at the beginning to make sure you’re as informed as you need to be on what a UX Designer is and what you need to do to get there. We’ll also be sharing some of the biggest mistakes new UX Designers make when breaking into the field that will save you time and potentially money!

Introducing Ashley Janelle:

As a seasoned User Experience and User Interface Designer, Ashley Janelle focuses on designing customer centered experiences that target her users everyday challenges. At Caterpillar Inc., Ashley taps into user needs while designing solutions that allow them to save time, money, and increase their productivity.

As a UX coach and course creator, she’s developed an online course, “Learn UX Online in 16 Weeks” to help aspiring UX designers go from beginner to experienced UX Designers to land jobs at top companies. Using her UX expertise and passion for working with people, Ashley’s not only helped others land their dream roles, but build the confidence to become successful UX Designers.

Welcome to Code & Create!

For this exciting Code & Create, we’ll be playing with JavaScript data structures. We will analyse how the different JavaScript constructions and types help us dealing with a series of use case scenarios.

You’ll learn to apply the most convenient data structure to efficiently solve real life algorithms.

This workshop is suitable for all. We'll start with the basics and then gradually increase the difficulty of the challenge in front of us.

Orbis Connect is back with another Code & Create. Within this virtual interactive live webinar, we'll be discussing Design Systems and Adobe XD.

Joe talks to Paul about how to improve communications between Designers and Developers, how Adobe XD can outperform other design systems such as Figma, plus the importance of building an effective design system within the current remote working environment.

Featuring Paul Cress at Adobe. Adobe XD is a powerful platform where you can design, prototype and share engaging user experiences. We'll be taking a deep dive into the platform.

What is XD?

Adobe XD is a powerful tool for your whole UI/UX design process. Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, animations, and more — no need to switch between multiple apps or worry about keeping designs in sync.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Within the second instalment of these special Code & Create workshops, we'll be looking at Apache Spark with guest speaker, Neeraj Bhadani - Data Scientist at Expedia Group.

Neeraj has more than a decade of experience building software, currently working in AI & Data Science team at Expedia Group. Prior to Expedia Group, he worked on various Big Data projects, dealt directly with clients as a Technical specialist, and migrated various ETL pipelines to Apache Spark. He also received a Gold Medal for securing first place in his batch during his undergraduate days.

During this workshop, we discuss the fundamentals of Apache Spark and how we can use spark DataFrames for Data Analysis.

Apache Spark is a General-purpose computing engine that has in-memory computing capabilities. It can be used for a variety of workloads like Batch processing, Iterative problems, stream processing, etc. It is designed to be highly scalable and provides various APIs like Scala, Python, R, Java, and SQL. It can be easily integrated with other BIG Data tools as well.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Within this workshop, we'll be looking at Apache Spark with guest speaker, Neeraj Bhadani - Data Scientist at Expedia Group.

Neeraj has more than a decade of experience building software, currently working in AI & Data Science team at Expedia Group. Prior to Expedia Group, he worked on various Big Data projects, dealt directly with clients as a Technical specialist, and migrated various ETL pipelines to Apache Spark. He also received a Gold Medal for securing first place in his batch during his undergraduate days.

Apache Spark is a General-purpose computing engine that has in-memory computing capabilities. It can be used for a variety of workloads like Batch processing, Iterative problems, stream processing, etc. It is designed to be highly scalable and provides various APIs like Scala, Python, R, Java, and SQL. It can be easily integrated with other BIG Data tools as well.

In this workshop, we cover the following topics:

• Introduction

• Architecture

• RDD: Resilient Distributed Dataset

• Demo

• Q & A

Welcome to Code & Create!

An introduction to building an open banking app using bank transaction data, through TrueLayer API.

TrueLayer is an open banking API that lets you build applications that securely access data and initiate payments in real-time. Guilherme is going to show us how we do this. 

Ft. Guilherme Maule - Principal Engineer at Chip 

Guilherme has a proven track record within the financial industry, B2B, outsourced services, technology & consultancy. Experienced at delivering business-aligned technical architecture, complex high volume and high availability systems and solutions through the innovative use of emerging technologies across software internationally.

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Orbis Connect presents Season 2 of Code & Create, a series of webinars and learning sessions by experts in the industry.

In this episode, we discuss Kotlin. Delving into the advantages, features and pros vs cons of migrating to Kotlin.

Featuring guest speaker, Ben Kadel, Senior Software Engineer at The Very Group. Ben has several years of experience as a software developer in many different roles, both in the UK and Germany. He loves programming and spends a lot of his free time learning as much as he possibly can, so we thought it would be great for him to share some of his wisdom with our community. Recently he's been focusing on Android Development and helping to maintain and implement features to the My Very Android App.

You can connect with Ben over on Twitter - @Ben_Kadel
or Linkedin - linkedin.com/benkadel
Or check out his YouTube (it's pretty funny) - YouTube.com/BenKadel

Welcome to Code & Create!

Shapeless in the real world: an introduction to generic programming

Shapeless is a powerful Scala library used behind many others, such as Circe or Doobie. This talk will show you how shapeless works, using it to solve a real problem.

Presented by Juliano Alves - Senior Software Engineer at TransferWise. Juliano is an open-source enthusiast, a firm believer that the future belongs to polyglot and functional programming. Hailing from Brazil, Juliano has been sharing his passion for technology here in London since 2016, previously working for Capital One and uSwitch.com prior to TransferWise. A practitioner of Agile methodologies delivering high-quality composable and testable code.

Welcome to Code & Create

We will have a look at how we can create lightweight React component libraries without over-engineering them. We'll also consider how we can use them in conjunction with a CMS to create new React Pages on the fly. By the end of this presentation, we will be able to build and scale a reusable react component library without too much effort.

Presented by George Georgiadis, Technical Lead at John Lewis.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Episode 1 of Code & Create focuses on Blameless Post Mortem's. Our guest speaker Jai shares a sample P1 scenario and runs through an example Blameless Post Mortem, a retrospective analysis of a technical failure.

Determining what can be done to prevent future failures, creating best practices, process improvements and mitigating future risks.

This session is presented by Jai Campbell, GCP DevOps Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group and Community Lead for SRE Site Reliability Engineering London Meetup Group. Expert in Site Reliability Engineering, GCP, DevSecOps, and Cloud-Native technologies.